It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.